June 2018 (Week 3)

+ offline mode, some progress on the second map
- 2 maps, system of achievements

+ Added stalactites
+ Changed charging mechanics
+ Changed grenades
+ Changed parry damage
+ Minor fixes
+ New prototype maps
+ Destroying tiles on touch testing before integrating into map format
+ Started making new boss sprite

+ flight controls, thrusting, gauges, level path splines and the beginning of area 1

+ Smash attack
+ Slope sliding
+ Flapping
- Flapping

+ Kart customization coming together
- The new kart data means a rewrite of the lobby system

+ Two new animations for the grunt
+ One new animation for the placeholder mc
+ AI can now return if a hit was made during a melee attack
+ Completely re-wrote the behavior tree for the grunt
+ Added a new attack to the missile launching mecha
- More gameplay tweaks
- late for DD21
- Busy and sunburnt

+ Stereo HMD map with moving icons
+ fixes for warping, bullets, ai steering
+ mission actors that spawn a number of enemies of different types
+ Changes for broom controls for better close and far range combat

+ Can pause the game now.
+ Put in some stuff that lets you control the framerate. There's a comment about it on the most recent Dev Log on the itch.io page.
+ Started putting down some stuff for the pause menu.
- Pause menu is gonna be a lot of work.
- Still need to fix the stuff I added last week.

+ Resumed dev work after taking a break for another project
+ Wrote a chara design doc for the artist
+ Made an NPC tanuki and slime that walk back and forth
- Lost some time daydreaming about "creative" decisions (planning out art and environments)

+ finished some simple generation algorithms (landscape, vegetation)
+ fixed glitchy wind from shader
+ fixed some assets
- polish the battle system
- don't forget to add farming
- add more content

+ Planned the hell out of the AI; way more rigorous and detailed than past plans. This was nearly half of my work this week, but it's all pseudocoded with maths out on paper.
+ Implemented area nodes for birds to circle around and and receive information from
+ Largely implemented behavior for the birds to travel between nodes, form circles around them, and adjust elevation based on necessity or scripting.
- Fair amounts of bugfixing to do before the next features
- This kind of work takes a lot of time, probably won't have anything substantial to show for Demo Day

+ Code improvements; development will be easier
+ Explosion now impulse enemies away
+ Enemies behavior improved; now they attack you
+- Found a bug on the box2d version im using, but it got fixed quickly
- Slow progress as usual; still need to pick an art style to draw my own sprites

+ Made tons of new asteroid models
+ Started the process of making actual ship models
+ Redid engine effects (that is, the particle effects for ship engines), greatly optimizing them as well
+ Redid asteroid shader code to use specular, normal, and emission maps
+ Redid asteroid generation code to fix some edge-case errors as well allow them to produce a greater variety of asteroids and rotational settings for such

+ UI grid system
+ Fixed bugs
+ Optimized collision code
- Got caught up with fonts again. SDF font quality was great but caused some serious spaghetti code. Got rid of those. Then I spent a few long days figuring out how to use this 3rd party font rasterizer. I got it working but I'm not using it yet.

+ expanded attack handling to account for multi-hit attacks
+ more generalized char controller to prep for
+ implementing orc boss into game

+ Bug fixes related to SNK characters
- Demo probably no longer about them anyway
+ Refactoring trigger evaluation code to make things faster
+ Caching static parts of results for faster evaluation
- Still not enough

+ Game exists

+ One new enemy, some existing ones adjusted
+ First zone rework is almost done
+ Working on a more intuitive UI

+ Added main character art.
+ Finished logo.
+ Player moves with real physics instead of NavMeshAgent.
+ Finished Gamejolt deploy and package script.
+ Lots of game feel and balance fixes.
- Player movement and camera feels a bit floaty.
- Not as far gone in terms of art and marketing as plan says.

+ added burning status so enemies can be lit on fire
+ refactored some of class architecture to get rid of global variables
+ enemies now have loot tables so each enemy has different item drops and chances for each item to drop
+ key control layout is now customizable

+ Placeholder ball shooter now moves in more directions
+ Added functions to enable different easing types (e.g. cubic in, cubic out, cubic in/out etc)
+ Nearly fixed the shadow bounce bug
+ Updated the background which is still a placeholder
+ Just realized with the code I wrote, I can theoretically pause motions for impact frames which rocks
- Work on menus
- Need to refactor the hell that is my collision events
- Need to make this whole thing exciting

+ Finished new idle animation
+ Clean up inventory code
+ Design status/inventory screens layout
- Stuck at designing inventory color theme.

+ Reworked interactable code to allow cooperative unit interaction
+ Various small UI tweaks and a bit of refactoring
+ Interaction phases (tree must be chopped and fallen down to allow wood gathering)

+ Tutorial half-implemented
+ Resolved problem with mass object state changer not calling itself
+ Main Menu / Hub Area is coming along, will post WEBM of a quick walk around its area after this post
- Hub Area still has a lot of lighting issues and is still missing essential things before I can put down the Interaction Zones

+ Some Exterior Art
+ Some Interior Art
- I might miss the demo day

+ Added epilouge
- I fucked up the tax interview and have to redo it
- Ohmygodi'mafraudpileoffuckingshitgodhelpme

+ More intro animation
- It'll get done this century I swear
+ Even more unlockables
+ Added spicy mode
+ Several bug fixes and tweaks to scoring
+ Redid the stage 1-1 pattern, about 50% longer and about the same difficulty
+ Added missing timeouts and quickkills to bosses
+ Laid groundwork for global leaderboards, waiting for steamworks to go though for the rest of it.

+ (shaders) Uniforms gets automatically registered
+ (shaders) Structs gets automatically type-set
+ re-implemented quick uniform access system
+ made Texture loading easier
+ Compiles on windows aswell now
+ Added global Material resources, so that mats can share data like camera position
+ Started on Special texture support (normal maps and cube maps etc)
- Missed the last monday because of exams

+ Found some tools that should make creating and editing cards more consistent in the editor
- The original plan would have been much neater and more efficient overall but it was ruined by how Unity implements serialisation

- c-c-combo broken ;_;
+ back to dev, finally
+ fixed a couple of issues with the witch's spell chaging
+ working on combos for the knight again
- so fucking retarded I STILL am having problems with them
+ writing down the code structure for scene data persistence and ally AI
- will most likely not make Demo Day 21, too little new content since the first demo
- feeling frustrated with my lack of coding skills

+ did test on root motion movement animations

+ Added very simple NPC schedule
+ Overhauled the dialog system. You can now talk with npcs about specific subjects.
- Working on npc AI
- Too many systems I want to implement before DD
- Hopefully I'll have at least 2 minutes of content this time instead of 1 ;^)

+ main menu modding seems to work again
+ content modding also working again
- irl gardendev taking up daily motivation

+ Got enemy in, moving, and attacking.
+ Did my first navmesh and it went great
+ Got all NPC's in the outside part of town saying their dialogue
+ Put in optional dialogue (ie. choosing a response to an NPC)
- Nothing really other than as usual it's taking me longer than I thought to do stuff.

+ Lots of UI Improvements
+ Uploaded game to Kongregate as well for more reach.
- So far itch.io feels more comfy. It seems that there's no auto promotion for new games on Kongregate, so you need to get 50 ratings by yourself. However, site offers monthly cash rewards for most popular games.
- Summer